The PHP UK Conference has just posted videos of all the 2015 sessions over on YouTube. The PHP UK Conference this year was a two-day event in London that featured some of the best speakers and sessions the PHP community has to offer. Videos posted include:

• Ben Waine - Application Logging & Logstash
• Beth Tucker Long - Be a Bold Coder
• Billie Thompson - MVVM and Silex - It's the future
• Marcello Duarte - Barely Enough Design
• Gary Hockin - Understanding the OWASP Top 10
• Christopher Hoult - Your API is a UI
• Gordon Skinner - Hexagonal Architecture in DDD

...and many more. There were some great sessions at this year's PHP UK and if you weren't abel to make it, these videos are the perfect chance to catch up.

For those interested in what's going on in the world of Hack (the Facebook-created language based on PHP) check out this "community roundup" with information about and links to some of the latest happenings.

In the weeks since the Hack open source launch and the Hack developer day, there has been a lot of information, code, blog posts, etc coming from our nascent community. To us on the team, it’s been incredible and encouraging to see the community reception to Hack. Here are some of the highlights of the things we’ve seen come out of our community. (And we almost certainly haven’t seen everything, so please let us know in the comments what we’ve missed!

They share several related GitHub projects (including the Hack/HHVM support on Heroku), a few presentations about installation and experience with the tools and a few blog posts wrapping up their Hack dev day and an article from FastCompany about Hack and its motivation

This year's php|tek 2012 conference has just wrapped up - some great sessions were presented, contributions were made at the hackathon and patches gathered by all.

If you attended this year's event, please be sure to give the speakers some feedback (on Joind.in) and, if you weren't able to, check out the "Slides" section for the presentations.

Topics at this year's event included:

• Easing in to HTML5 and CSS3 (Brian Moon)
• Web Security and You (Eli White)
• (Re)discovering the SPL (Joshua Thijssen)
• Slim Your PHP, Fatten Your JS (Ed Finkler)

Sven Eisenschmidt has put together a site that want to help beginners with the Symfony2 framework get up to speed quickly with some handy tips and tricks they can use in their development.

Some of the tips listed so far include:

• How to free Symfony2 from the sandbox tutorial (with some help from Git)
• Doctrine in the Real World - Presentation from Symfony Live 2011
• The Path to Symfony in the USA- Presentation from Symfony Live 2011
• Form naming
• Translate form labels inside Twig templates

Check out the full blog for more tips and links to presentations.

Chris Shiflett has a reminder for anyone planning to attend that the Early Bird registration for the ApacheCon Europe is coming up quickly.

This year's event will include several speakers on PHP-related topics, including Theo Schlossnagle on "Advanced Production Troubleshooting Techniques" and Chris Shiflett covering his usual - "Essential PHP Security".

The conference is June 26th through 30th in Dublin, Ireland and prices start (including the Early Bird while it lasts) start at around 570 Euro for full conference access. Check out complete prices here.

Chris Shiflett has a reminder for anyone planning to attend that the Early Bird registration for the ApacheCon Europe is coming up quickly.

This year's event will include several speakers on PHP-related topics, including Theo Schlossnagle on "Advanced Production Troubleshooting Techniques" and Chris Shiflett covering his usual - "Essential PHP Security".

The conference is June 26th through 30th in Dublin, Ireland and prices start (including the Early Bird while it lasts) start at around 570 Euro for full conference access. Check out complete prices here.

Andrei Zmievski has posted this new blog item today with links to his talks from the (just passed) php|Teck conference.

He also mentions a great "impromptu event" the Thursday night of the conference - a dinner that ended with a speed beed drinking contest. And yes, ther's documented proof - check out these movies of it over on Sare Goleman's blog.

Andrei Zmievski has posted this new blog item today with links to his talks from the (just passed) php|Teck conference.

He also mentions a great "impromptu event" the Thursday night of the conference - a dinner that ended with a speed beed drinking contest. And yes, ther's documented proof - check out these movies of it over on Sare Goleman's blog.